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James Bartolomeo

Born in Providence, RI many moons ago. Studied electronics in the US Air Force where he served 24 years. His jobs included Electronic Warfare technician and Master Instructor.

Major contributor to the fall of the wall and end of the cold war through electronics superiority. This prepared him for the classroom where he now prepares young technicians to take over the world of electronics.

Class of 2012

http://www.polytech.k12.de.us/

Armstrong

Born December 18th, 1890 in Now York city
Educated at Columbia University
he was an electrical engineer and inventor
Died January 31, 1954

he invented the FM radio

Atanasoff

Bell

Born and raised in Edinburgh Scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University.

He created the first ever Telephone

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltelephone2.htm

Berliner

Bush

Claude

Davy

Sir Humpry Davy was born on December 17, 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. His father died in 1794. In an effort to support his family became an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary, J. Binghan Borlase.

Davy was the first to discover that different materials attracted eletrons better than others. he eventually went on to discover magnesium, calcium, strontium, and barium in 1808.

DeForest

Lee Deforest was born on 1873 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He later attended Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. Lee Deforest later died on July 1, 1961at age 87 in Hollywood.

Notable contributions from Lee Deforest to electronics is the creation of the Diode, Triode, and being one of the people to bring sound to movies. He aslo was the creator of public radio for advertising purpopses.

http://www.leedeforest.org/

Edison

Born February 11, 1847 in Milan Ohio. Died October 18, 1931 in West Orange, New Jersey. He was a great businessman as well as an inventor without much education.

Most notable invention was the electric lightbulb but also had many inventions including an electric typewriter and an improved version of the phonograph.

http://www.thomasedison.com/

Faraday

Born in Newington Butts, England on September 22,1791 Michael Faraday was a bookbinder's apprentice turned inventor. He is famous for creating numorous inventions and scientific laws.

His most notable invention was the Faraday Cage

www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Faraday.html

Franklin

Born in Boston,
a great writer and inventor who invented the franklin stove, bifocal glasses, and the lightning rod.

He found that lightning is a form of ESD, this lead him to prove that lightning and electricity are the same thing.

americanhistory.about.com/od/.../p/bio_franklin.htm

Galvin

Ginsburg

Gould

Hertz

Born in Hamburg, Germany, a physicist & a professor at a variety of different colleges, that introduced the unit Hertz the name used for radio & electrial frequencies.

Hertz proved that electricity can be transmitted in electromagnetic waves, that led to the development of wireless telegraph & the radio.

http://www.nndb.com/people/419/000072203/

Nixon

Spencer

Sturgeon

Tesla

Nikola tesla was born on July 10, 1856. His years growing up were spent in an ethnic serb in the village of Smiljan (current Croatia) .He was a subject of the Austrailian Empire and later in his life (1891 at the age of 35) became a U.S Citizen.

Tesla was the inventor the spark plug(1898) as well as the rc car. this took form as a rc boat that he was demonstrating to the U.S military for possible use for torpedoes.What tesla is truely known for is his developments in electromagnetism, and the" Tesla Effect", or the wireless transfer of electricity.

rc-boat_1.jpg

Tyndall

Volta

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born in February 18, 1745 in Como, Italy, he is also a physicist.

He was famous for inventing the first electric cell called a voltaic pile.

Other info on Alessandro Volta

Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone was born near Gloucester England in February 6th 1802. While growing up, Charles had an affinity for books. However, when he turned 14, he was apprenticed to his uncle to learn to make musical instruments. He engineered the Wheatstone Bridge, a device used to measure electrical values.

He is known for his creation of the Wheatstone Bridge.He was knighted in 1868, shortly after completing the automatic telegraph.